Fourvière is the name of the hill which dominates the center of Lyon in the West, and of the central district of this hill.

Situation

North in the South of Lyon, the Saone then the Rhone skirts the last buttresses of the Massif Central. What is called " la" hill of Fourvière is actually an alignment which dominates the Saone since Vaise to the confluence, with uneven reaching up to 120 meters. It comprises, of North in the South, the districts of Saint-Irenee, Loyasse, Fourvière, Saint-Just, and continues more in the South on the commune of Holy-Foy-the-Lyon.

The Saone circumvents it with its foot, enclosing in its center the district of Old man-Lyon.

Vis-a-vis Fourvière, the peninsula, the districts Is city and the plain of the Bas-Dauphiné let the sight go until the Bugey, with the Chartreuse, and Large the the Alps.
This geographical position has its reverse: the access to Fourvière from Old man-Lyon is done by ways very stiff and very few. Oldest is the Rise of the Gourguillon, omnipresent in the Lyons folklore.

History

The Romans based Lugdunum on the top of the hill. Forum Vetus (“old forum”), the name changed into Fourvière . Part of the forum collapsed at the 9th century following a landslide. The current basilica is built on this old forum, heart of the city romaine.
Other collapses more recently took place, of which that of the Rue Tramassac, which made many victims.

Curiosities

The “hill which requests” is famous for its inheritances archaeological and religious:

• Archeological site of the ancient theater, the ancient odéon, and the temple of Cybèle
• Museum of the Graeco-Roman civilization
• Basilica Notre-Dame de Fourvière
• Turn metal of Fourvière
• Gardens of the Rosary

Tunnels

The hill is crossed by four tunnels

• the railway tunnel Saint-Irenee, of Vaise with Perrache, on line PLM Paris-Lyon
• the highway tunnel said Tunnel of Fourvière, of Perrache with Tassin, on the highway A7
• the tunnel of the line D of the subway, of Midsummer's Day with Vaise
• the tunnel ferrovaire of Saint-Paul with Throat-of-Wolf, on the network western suburbs of Lyon

Two railway galleries go up there, both at the beginning of Vieux Lyon, Cathédrale StJean :

• the funicular Midsummer's Day - Fourvière , also called the string, which arrives on the esplanade of the Basilica
• the funicular Midsummer's Day - Minimes - Saint-Just , whose intermediate stop serves the ancient theater and the Gallo-Roman museum.

(Another " ficelle" went up of Saint-Paul in Fourvière, but it was abandoned)

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